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...Max Haiven Abstract The last forty years of financialization have laid the groundwork for a resurgence of fascist cultural politics. This article expands Hito Steyerl's notion of derivative fascism by placing it in dialogue with Enzo Traverso's theory of postfascism and Randy Martin's exploration...

.... The song “Guantanamera” is a quasi-officially Cuban cultural and national artifact, though in fact its history of composition, performance, and recording reveals it to be a remarkably unstable and fluid text. The site, the U.S. naval base on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, continues into 2007 to challenge political...

...Tryon P. Woods This essay explores the ethicopolitical context in which black art, black performance, black social movements, and black popular culture find expression. I configure the critical study of hip hop within an accounting of the materiality of antiblack sexual violence in which the modern...

.... Torruellas, and Ana L. Juarbe. 1992 . Responses to poverty among Puerto Rican women:Identity, community, and cultural citizenship . New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College. Duara, Prasenjit. 1997 . Nationalist among transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the idea of China, 1900-1911...

...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...

... respect culture? American Journal of Political Science 44 (3): 405 -18. Miller, Toby. 1993 . The well-tempered self:Citizenship, culture, and the postmodern subject . Baltimore, Md.:Johns Hopkins University Press. Ong, Aihwa. 1999 . Flexible citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality...

..., GLOBAL POLITICS, AND CULTURAL CRITICISM In the introduction to what became an infamous set of essays published in Patricia Social Text in 1996, Andrew Ross pointed to the connection conservative Ticineto critics were drawing between what had been called the “culture wars...

...Tiziana Terranova Duke University Press 2004 Communication beyond Meaning ON THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF INFORMATION Is it possible to draw on scientifi c concepts to further our understand- Tiziana...

...Patrick Deer Modern cultural criticism, like the younger discipline of cultural studies, has long struggled to reconcile the antagonistic logic at the heart of the idea of culture. Social Text 's project as a journal has been energized throughout by the contradictory genealogy of the term itself...

... don't know if one's breath is like a fingerprint—that is, unique to each individual—but it's clearly an integral part of who we are. Indeed, some cultures think that your soul inheres within the breath. As the poet Rumi allegedly wrote: “The soul lives there in the silent breath.” The Greek word...

...Charles Hirschkind The great attention given to death and the afterlife within the popular media of the Islamic movement is a sign for many in the West of a diseased Muslim culture, one preoccupied with violence and destruction, and inexorably epitomized in the figure of the suicide bomber...

...Mark Kalbus This introduction to the translation of Theodor W. Adorno's “ Kultur and Culture,” originally a lecture not intended for transcription and publication, situates the talk amongst Adorno's analyses of U.S. society and traces his distinctions between European and American understandings...

...Theodor W. Adorno This lecture examines American and European understandings of the concept of culture and highlights the need for developing critical thought instead of yielding to the strength of the status quo in either setting. At the heart of the contrast between American and German culture...

...Aimé Césaire “Culture and Colonization,” which has long been unavailable in English translation, was Aimé Césaire's speech at Le Premier Congrès International des Ecrivains et Artistes Noirs, hosted by the journal Présence africaine in Paris in September 1956. The congress is one...

...Max Haiven This essay seeks to contribute to the theoretical groundwork for a cultural studies of finance by recasting a Marxist theory of value toward an analysis of the politics of the imagination under financialized capitalism. My argument is as follows. (1) Social cooperation, creativity...

... Staatssicherheit im Fokus Prenzlauer Berg . Leipzig: Reclam Verlag. Boyer, Dominic. 2000a . Spirit and system: Mass media,journalism, and the dialectics of modern German intellectual culture. Ph.D. diss. , University of Chicago. ____. 2000b . On the sedimentation and accreditation of social knowledges...

... CORRUPTION IN CORPORATE CULTURE As bombs showered Baghdad in spring 2003, the spate of corruption scan- Randy Martin dals from a year earlier could easily have seemed a distant memory. In the and Ella Shohat context of an awesome war, corruption might have seemed a minor domestic affair no longer...

... interpellation occurs through confrontations in the material world, through dances between people and things. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Dances with Things Material Culture and the Performance of Race Robin Bernstein In a photograph from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manu- script...